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Emacs freezes when doing a gui-get-selection on OpenBSD

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Message #47 received at 29170 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: daimrod <at> omecha.info, 29170 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29170: 26.0.90; Emacs freezes when capturing an org-template
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 18:08:44 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: daimrod <at> omecha.info,  29170 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:30:45 +0200
> 
> On OpenBSD, most of the time, the function
> "xselect.c/x_get_foreign_selection" won't get a SelectNotify with
> (SECONDARY, TEXT) as arguments (that I did not understand and it might
> never happen on other oses).
> 
> But then, while waiting at most 'x-selection-timeout' into
> "process.c/wait_reading_process_output" the 'now' variable won't have a
> chance of being invalidated or updated and that is what cause the
> infinite loop.
> 
> Someone more knowledgeable of "process.c/wait_reading_process_output"
> might have a better solution to this problem.

If this is an OpenBSD-only problem, maybe we should install that
change #ifdef'ed by OpenBSD?

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